This week’s episode of Someone Else’s Movie risks creating a little bit of a paradox, as I’m joined by Daniel Bernhardt — who stars in Steven Kostanski’s endearing Deathstalker reboot, opening everywhere on Friday — to discuss a film that’s near and dear to his heart: The Matrix.

Why is this one spacey-timey? Because Daniel has dozens of action-movie credits, and one of them is The Matrix Reloaded … which let him stomp around in the world the Wachowskis created four years previous. I think that’s cool; Daniel thinks that’s cool. So we talked about it a little. But mostly we talked about The Matrix, because it’s still pretty awesome.

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Also, if you’re curious to hear more from Team Deathstalker, you can and should check out Steven Kostanski’s 2021 SEMcast on Mortal Kombat, and co-star Conor Sweeney’s 2024 episode on Alien; these are people who love weird creatures and strange environments, and they’re very savvy about why they love them. Never a dull moment.

And then you can catch up to the latest edition of Shiny Things, where I dug into Decal’s new Blu-ray release of Mike Flanagan’s The Life of Chuck — which turns out to be a lovely package for one of the best films of the year.

Subscribers to the paid tier also got my reviews of Play Dirty, All of You and V/H/S Halloween on Friday as part of the weekly What’s Worth Watching newsletter; if you want to be among the elite and informed, it’s awfully easy to upgrade that subscription! So maybe do that? I bet you’ll be a lot happier.